Sekesai Makwavarara, has raised the ire of government opponents by her regular overseas trips, choice of expensive curtaining for her mansion and attempts to buy council property at below-market rates.

The semblance of an inn is attempted to be given to this wretched place by fragments of conventional red curtaining in the windows, which rags are made muddily transparent in the night – season by feeble lights of rush or cotton dip burning dully in the close air of the inside.

Sitting in among the wares he dealt in, by a charcoal stove, made of old bricks, was a grey – haired rascal, nearly seventy years of age; who had screened himself from the cold air without, by a frousy curtaining of miscellaneous tatters, hung upon a line; and smoked his pipe in all the luxury of calm retirement.